A1095 crash in East Suffolk on 17 March 2008 at 18:50 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the A1095 in East Suffolk at 18:50 on Monday 17 March 2008. The 17-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2008
- Monday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33127, longitude 1.61479, in the IP19 postcode district. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200837L015404
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1095
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 February 2022.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1095 in East Suffolk, 6 February 2022
9 m awayRef 2022371140982
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A1095 in East Suffolk, 13 June 2000
10 m awayRef 200037L004451
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A1095 in East Suffolk, 8 October 2014
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Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A1095 in East Suffolk, 18 April 2020
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1095 in East Suffolk, 3 August 1999
22 m awayRef 199937L003399
Fatal
Volvo S40 crash on the A1095 in East Suffolk, 7 October 2008
22 m awayRef 200837L016167
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200837L015404 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 2008.